Scientists have shown how vibrantly-coloured animals can increase their chances of survival by using camouflage to hide in plain sight. Researchers in Bristol showed how the gleaming, metallic wings ...

Fossils tend to offer a black-and-white view of the past, but new research on prehistoric beetles brings the insects' flashy metallic colors back to vivid life. The findings, published in the journal ...

New research has found that the vivid and colourful iridescence of beetles actually works as a form of disruptive camouflage. Experiments proved that, counterintuitively, iridescence does make beetles ...

Vivid colour Fossils tend to offer a black and white view of the past, but new research on prehistoric beetles brings the insects' flashy metallic colours back to vivid life. The findings, published ...